Roof and shingle therefor



Aug. 25, 1931.

C. C. FIGGE ROOF AND SHINGLE THEREFOR Filed Oct. 20, 1928 Patented Aug. 25; 1931 CARROLL G. FIGGE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ROOF AND SKIING-LE THEREFOR Application filed October 20, 1928. Serial No.'313,707.

This invention relates in general to a composition shingle of the individual type held down at the butt or projecting tip and to a roof composed of such shingles.

5 Among the objects of the invention are to provide an improved shingle with a thick butt constructed of composition roofing and having attached means for holding the shingle in place; to provide improved shingle 10 holding means; to provide a shingle with a tip holding means which predetermines the location of each shingle with respect to those laid in advance of it; and in general to provide the shingle and roof as herein l5 shown and described.

Other objects of the invention will appear hereinafter, the accompanying drawings illustrating a preferred embodiment of the invention.

10 In the drawings Fig. 1, represents a portion of a roof with shingles staggered in.

One of the objections to shingles made of composition roofing is that even though 55 they are coated with finely divided slate, granite or other minerals, the shingle does not have sufiicient thickness at the butt to produce a shade line of noticeable depthwhen placed upon a roof, and the shingle does not have sufficient rigidity to hold it in place unless some kind of a holding device is provided. The present invention overconies these objections by turning under two adjacent edges of a shingle, thus increasing the thickness of the exposed end of the shingle, giving the shingle increased rigidity along these edges, and sealing them against the moisture and the weather. The'adjacent turned under edgesof the )0 shingle form means for engagement of a butt or tip fastening clip which may be secured thereto for .the purpose -not only of holding the turned under edges in place but also for providing means in positioning each individual shingle with the adjacent shingles of different courses in laying a roof.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, a shingle 6 which may be of the material is inserted under the edges 7 and 8 and sharpened tongues 10 struck up from the opposite edges of the strip 9 are inserted through the material of the shingle adjacent the corner thereof and the tips of these tongues are bent over upon the'under side of the shingle to hold the folded edges 7 and 8 tightly in place and to hold the clip 9 attached to the shingle.

The outer or free end 11 of this clip is preferably rounded. The clip being of metal or other resilient material, it is easily raised from contact with the under side of the shingle so that it may be inserted beneath the edges of other shingles for holding the exposed tip of the shingle in place.

Instead of making the fastening device of a solid strip of metal, as shown in Figure 4, a wire holding clip 12 may be provided,

as shown in Figure 5, rounded at one end 13 and having its ends 14- crossed and extending around the sides with the extremities 15 adapted to pierce the edges 7 and 8 of the shingle and clinch downwardly'there-- on, as shown in Figure 3. This will leave the rounded end 13 free to be inserted under other shingles for holding the tip or butt in place.

When this shingle is incorporated in a roof, the tip or point of the shingle may be placed downwardly, orin the case of a rectangular shingle, as shown, the shingles may be overlapped in courses, as indicated in Figure 1. In laying the shingles in this fashion, it is necessary to buildf'up the courses diagonally upon the roof, the shin- 5 gles a: being in one course, the shingles bi in'another course, and the shingles a in a third course.

When arranged in this manner, the two corners of the shingle at the ends of the 1 turned under edges are secured in place by nails 16 or other fastening devices and these nails are located at such a distance a art in adjacent shingles of one course that astening clips 9 (or 13) may be inserted there- 15 between and under the shingles which they fasten in place. This serves the double purose of holding down the extremity of the Eutt end and covers the adjacent nail heads so that they do not present an unsightly appearance or cause leaks in the roof. An-

other'result obtained by this arrangement is the positive and accurate positioning of each succeeding shingle with respect to the two adjacent shingles below it. r

In the form shown in Fig. 6, a flat metal clip 15 is attached to the under side of one corner of a shingle 16 by prongs 17 stamped out of the clip and climbed into and through the shingle. The shingle may have its adjacent edges bent over as in Figs. 2 and 3, or the corner may be bent under or cut oil on a line 18.

With these constructions the shingles are complete in themselves when they arrive on the; job, it is not necessary to apply the fastening devices after the shingles are in place or partly in place, and the fastening devices being flat will nest closely together for packing and storage.

claim:

1. The combination of a composition shingle having adjacent edges turned under forming an angular tip, a substantiall flat shingle positioning and tip holding evice having one end disposed between the turned under edges and the under side of the shingle and means engagingthe said edges at the corner for holding them together and securin the device in place and the free ends 0 the device extending toward the central portion of the under side of the shingle.

2. The combination of a composition shinle having adjacent edges turned under orming an angular tip, and a substantially flat shingle positioning member secured between the said edges and the under side of the shingle and holding the-edges together, and the free end of the member extending toward the central portion of the shingle.

CARROLL C; FIGGE. 

